[krapp]

>It seems like terrorism to actually say it(...)

It is. Let's just call a spade a spade here.. that interpretation of the Second Amendment endorses and justifies domestic terrorism. "Tyranny" can mean anything from an oppressive totalitarian state to the dehumanization of modern technological society to the existence of the IRS to too many foreigners in your neighborhood - or, of course, gun control itself. Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder.

[megaman22]

We are a nation founded by smugglers, rabble rousers, and terrorists, with a deep, abiding distaste for centralized authority.

[krapp]

Only some of us have a deep, abiding distaste for centralized authority, fewer still to the point of violence, and our nation was founded by elite slaveholding landowners who still shut down petty rebellions after they took power rather than duly submit themselves to the gallows on behalf of some common hatred they held with the people for their own state.

Hell, when Benjamin Franklin said that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," he was arguing in favor of the government's right to form a collective defense, collect taxes and regulate the militia.

The founding fathers didn't mistrust centralized authority, they mistrusted the authority of the Crown.